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Fritz Goerling wrote:
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<p> <span>Here is the translation of the famous song “Mackie Messer”
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<p> <span>(“Mack the Knife”) from </span> <span>German playwright
Bert Brecht’s “The
Threepenny Opera:”</span> <span> </span> </p>
<p> <span> </span> </p>
<p><b> <span>Oh, the
shark, babe, has such teeth, dear</span> </b> <span> </span> </p>
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And it shows them pearly white</span> </b> <span> </span> </p>
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Just a jackknife has old MacHeath, babe</span> </b> <span> </span> </p>
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And he keeps it … ah … out of sight.</span> </b> <span> </span> </p>
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<p> <span>As Bill Shakespeare is on the headlines
on this list at the moment, I wonder, John, whether he is to blame for
the “M(a)c”
prefix meaning “bad” (Macbeth)? But there is MacDuff in “Macbeth”?
That might demolish your theory. ;-) </span> </p>
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Fritz,<br>
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No, I don't think so. Mack in "Mack the knife" clearly has a different
etymology to Mc from McDonalds. It is even spelled differently. :-) And
I don't think there was a McDonalds outside of the Globe. But the Mc in
McMansions indicates that what Mc really means is "like McDonalds", and
you can take different aspects of that. So for the McFood and Coffee
restaurant in Bratislavia, for example, "McFood" is probably good. <br>
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John R<br>
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John R Roberts<br>
SIL International Linguistics Consultant<br>
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